In such cases, I look for my problem on stackoverflow. When I find a solution which seems right to me, I look up https://git-scm.com/docs to get a better understanding of what I am doing and why.

The problem with many documentations is that they are not use-case driven. Much of it is a functionality description. Such as:

- To fasten, you have to turn the nut clockwise.

instead of:

- To fit these two parts together you need to fasten the nuts onto the screws.